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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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who had, in fact, for several years before his 

 decease, been quite blind, was at the date of this 

 instrument dead, and had indeed been nearly 

 two months dead, departing this life on January 

 14. The see of Norwich itself therefore was at 

 the time vacant, the successor. Repps, not being 

 even elected until May 31, 1536. By the Act 26 

 Henry VIII. the suffragan would have no au- 

 thority but by, and during, commission from his 

 principal. John Williams. 



Arno's Court. 



Syr Tryamoure (2°* S. viii. 225.) — I send the 

 following attempted explanations of the passages 

 given by E. S. J. : — 



1. '■'■ Evyr''' must, I think, be for "aver," 

 though I know of no other place in old poetry 

 where it is so spelt. 



2. " Noghtfor thy " signifies " however," " not- 

 withstanding." Compare 



" The lad ne let no with for thi 

 They he criede nierci ! merci ! " 



Havelok the Dane, 1. 2500. 



which passage means the lad did not leave off, 

 although they cried him mercy. 



3. " Be wyth chaionce " seems simply pleonastic 

 for " by chance." 



4. " Evei'y of." Compare Coventry Mysteries, 

 p. 22., 1. 14., Shaks. Soc. ed. ; it is also frequent 

 in writers of the middle of the seventeenth cen- 

 tury, in the sense of " each one " of many. 



5. " On hye." " Hye " is the substantive of 

 the verb " hie," to haste, which is now nearly 

 confined to sporting phrases. 



6. " Warne "= " avoid." No man could avoid 

 his prowess. Compare 



" To warne thy dome me ne gaynes." 



Chester Flays in Doomsday. 



7. The foresters swore they would give him 

 no pass (" wedd "), but must have his person, and 

 that there was no other way (" ne") for him; the 

 last line being in " direct oration," as the context 

 shows. 



8. " Grete " here = " lament." 



9. Sir Tryamour says, when he has lopped off 

 the legs of the giant Burlond, that we little ones 

 have some chance with you now we have reduced 

 you to the same size. 



10. " Wayne" must mean " swing," I think, as 

 E. S. J. suggests. 



11. " Withiney'wys "= within I wis, as E.S. J. 

 has it. CoEMELL Price. 



Cross and Candlesticks on Super-altar (2^^ S. 

 viii. 255.) — Mr. R. H. N. Browne states that the 

 super-altar is a ledge to support " the cross and 

 candlesticks which are ordered to be placed there 

 by the Rubric of our present Prayer-Book in the 

 Church of England." 



In The Times report of the judgment in Wes- 

 terton v. Liddell (Dec. 22, 1856), a Rubric is 



cited from the " Institutiones Liturgicce ad usum 

 Seminarii Itomani" by which it is ordered, — 

 " Collocetur crux et candelabra saltem duo." 

 But in inability to find such Rubric in " our 

 present Prayer-book of the Church of England," 

 Mr. Browne would oblige by a reference to it. 



Lancastriensis. 

 Bacon's Essay XLV. (2"^ S. v. 181.) — 

 " Neither is it ill Air only that maketh an ill Seat ; 

 but ill Ways, ill Markets ; and, if you will consult with 

 Momus, ill Neighbours." 



Upon this EiRioNNACH, at the above reference, 

 remarks, — 



" An ordinary man would consider this passage so plain 

 as to require no comment ; Mr. Singer, however, thinks 

 differently, and appends the following extraordinary 

 note ; — 



" ' /. e. If you are disposed to lead a pleasant life, Motnus 

 being the god of mirth.' ! ! 



" I need hardly remark that Momus is not ' the god of 

 mirth ' (unless Sardonic mirth), but the god of mockery 

 and ridicule, carping and fault-finding: and that this 

 most unnecessary note destroys the whole force of the 

 passage." 



I agree with Eirionnach that Mr. Singer's 

 note is "extraordinary" and "most unnecessary;" 

 but I think Eirionnach's super-note equally ex- 

 traordinary, and equally calculated to mislead. 

 Bacon's allusion is so obvious to the scholar, 

 that I can only express surprise that either Mr. 

 Singer or his censor should have missed it : but 

 for ordinary readers I should think an explana,- 

 tory note far from unnecessary. " If you will 

 consult with Momus " is an allusion to the trite 

 story of Momus deriding Minerva because she 

 had not made her house movable, which therefore 

 could not be shifted out of an ill neighbourhood. 



Clammild. 



Athenffium Club. 



Jasper Runic Ring (2"** S. viii. 248.) — In 

 answer to Mr. Frank's inquiry as to the Cum- 

 berland runic ring, it may possibly be now in the 

 Royal Museum at Copenhagen : at least in the 

 Afbildninger fra der Kovgelige Museum for Nor- 

 diske Oldsager i Kjoberchaon, at p. 87., No. 342., 

 is one with runes very much like it, as far as my 

 recollection of the former goes, but I have not it 

 at hand for comparison of the letters. The only 

 difference would be that the Danish one is said to 

 be electrura, the Cumberland one cornelian : the 

 size would be the same. W. B., Ph. D. 



Louis the Fifteenth (2"^ S. viii. 268.) — On the 

 trial of the late Earl of Stirling, Lord Meadow- 

 bank stated that Louis XV. never wrote but two 

 words in his life, "bon" and "Louis R." This as- 

 sertion was disproved by the Baron de Pages, one 

 of the French witnesses examined on the trial, who 

 being interrogated as to the writing attributed to 

 Louis XV., answered, " It is exactly like the speci- 



